[Verginius Rufus]

Jefferson had doubts about the constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase...but it was too tempting to turn down.

Just attended a reading of the Declaration of Independence at the local court house (an annual event for many years organized by the local chapters of the DAR and the SAR). Listening to the offenses of which King George was accused made me think how trivial many of them were compared to what we allow the federal government to do nowadays. What would the Founding Fathers think of present-day Americans?

[John S Mosby]

Well spoken, Verginius! My prior post concerns two of the giants of our Founders who composed the Declaration of Independence, and Jefferson (one year before his death, today in 1826) re-affirming the relationship of Virginia to the Constitution and the limits accepted by limited affirmation of “roads and canals” built by the Federal govt- and ONLY that.

Look indeed to the vast wasteland imposed by a profligate and detached fedgov of unionized employees of agencies created whole cloth by... political parties. Immigration out of control to bring in— stupid labor not familiar with our Constitution at all and whose main task is to pay into the Socialist Security system set up by FDR (and his “second Bill of Rights speech is one for the archives as the road map to our current destruction, for certain).
It is up to those who love the Founding and this Country, as
“Vox populi panis et circi late est”.

Be well,Verginius Rufus.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
—Marcus Tullio Cicero

[sopo]

Certainly La purchase and other territorial expansion was the largest domestic policy expansion with the greatest rewards of all time. I love a quote I read years ago, the past is a foreign land.

[nfldgirl]

Sickened and appalled, no doubt.

[DiogenesLamp]

Just attended a reading of the Declaration of Independence at the local court house (an annual event for many years organized by the local chapters of the DAR and the SAR). Listening to the offenses of which King George was accused made me think how trivial many of them were compared to what we allow the federal government to do nowadays. What would the Founding Fathers think of present-day Americans?

Thank Lincoln and his tax and spend liberals. He changed the relationship between the states and the Federal government.

Happy Secession Day!